Lisa Principi 100W

Watch me from home, or on the go, I'll be the one telling you what's going on and what's important right now. My dream job is to be a reporter and anchor for a broadcast station in a top market. Always in a different place, telling a different story. When I went into college, I did not know what I wanted to do, but I knew that I did not want to sit at a desk in an office for the rest of my life. Unless that desk is a news desk with thousands watching, maybe I'll give in. I hope to have a career where I am respected, and can help tell the stories that mean the most to people.  As of now, I am looking at multimedia journalist jobs in places like Salinas and Chico. Multimedia journalists are required to report, shoot and edit their own videos, and looking at smaller markets such as these will give me a higher chance of getting hired since they ask for less experience.  Strong news judgement, communication skills, teamwork, filming and non-linear editing ar...

Identify the trend in each story? Example No. 1    Mobile ticketing, specifically for sports Example No. 2    Service animals and emotional support animals Which story appealed to you more and why? The first story appealed to me more because it was interesting to see the ways different Bay Area sports teams are implementing this new technology being in the Silicon Valley. Also, all of the quotes and stories from different people were intriguing.  What is your favorite quote from each story? Example No. 1     “It was hard enough learning how to work my Samsung flip phone,” said Norm Gilbert, 78. “I have no intention of getting a smartphone. My phone works fine and I don’t feel the need to change that.” Example No. 2     “People go to animals because the animals life revolves around their "person" and other people have too many things to do in their own life that it makes it hard to actually talk to someone about it...

Lisa Principi, an Emmy Award and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, died last night in the comfort of her home at the ripe age of 123. Before her death, she was the oldest living woman in the world at the time. After graduating from San Jose State University with a bachelor's degree in journalism, she went on to work in broadcast and print media all around California. She became an ABC News correspondent and won multiple awards for her reporting on World War III. She wasn't afraid to put herself in danger to get the best shot. She continued her work until her mid 70s, when she decided a less stressful life would be better for her health. In her free time, she enjoyed pilates, hiking and spending time with family and friends. She married Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, and lived a comfortable life all around the globe. Both Principi and Bezos are well known for the philanthropic work around the world, specifically pertaining to children. After Bezos p...

For many, news of a Muslim travel ban in the U.S. brings up memories of a dark part of America’s recent history. Seventy-six years ago, a similar executive order called for the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. Director Abby Ginzberg was inspired by both of these events and drew a connection between the two in her documentary titled “And Then They Came For Us.” The film, featuring actor George Takei, tells first hand accounts from Japanese Americans on what it was like to be forcibly removed from their homes in 1942. The fifty-minute film displays photos from famous photographers, including Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams, to showcase real life in these camps. While images of propaganda against the Japanese flooded the media at the time, photographs within the camps were packed away by the government, virtually unseen for years. It is amazing to see how much emotion Lange was able to convey through her snapshots, seemingly able to fr...

Students sit on the lawn before Tower Hall chatting and waiting for class, paying little attention to the looming statue that stands in the foreground. Two men, 22 feet tall, watch over the quad as a reminder of a much different time in America. A single pair of gloves cover the raised fists of both men as they proudly stand tall on the podium. Their names are Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who were once vilified throughout the world but now have their own statue on the San Jose State campus and the title of "hero." They proudly wear pins supporting "The Olympic Project of Human Rights" next to their gold and bronze Olympic medals. Their bare feet are planted firmly on the platform they had worked so hard to earn, representing the plight of black poverty. An olive branch rests in the left hand of Smith, a symbol he was extending to the entire world. These two men, who years ago walked these same streets and took classes on this same campus, recognized t...

A small group of students gathered in front of Clark Hall to protest SB 320, a bill that would require all University of California and California State Universities to provide drugs prescribed from medical abortion. These students called themselves "pro-lifers," and their objective is to stop this bill from passing. "A financially free abortion on campus violates our conscience rights as pro-lifers," said Kevin Right. Rather than having abortions, these students are advocating for more resources for mothers on campus. "Abortion is not the answer here. The answer is keeping the child through life and helping the mother get the support she needs." Kevin wanted to make sure women know they have other options besides abortion. "We want to let women know that true choice is having empowerment to say, 'You know what, I can have a baby.'"

A bronze wall sits in the heart of downtown San Jose to commemorate the treatment of the Japanese in America during World War II. Artist Ruth Asawa, who experienced Japanese internment first hand, created the sculpture covered in small vignettes. One side tells the story of Japanese immigration, with faces full of hope arriving by boat and taking their first steps on American soil. Families worked hard on this soil, with everyone including children joining in to tend to the fields. After long days of work, they took their shoes off and gathered together for family meals in traditional Japanese style. That was life in America, until the day U.S. Soldiers arrived with “Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry.” Suddenly, the Japanese had to quickly sell everything they owned before being forced to places unknown: internment camps. “Evacuation sale… Must vacate… 1 day to go,” read the signs. The Japanese packed into train cars, which man...